All Stars

Bryson just wrapped up his All Star season of baseball. Austin tried out for his age group, and didn't make it. His size has always been an influencing factor, and there are some politics involved with who the coaches choose to be on the team. Matt watched the try-outs and there were kids who made the All Star team that had a worse try-out than Austin who fielded all his balls well and hit 3 for 3 on the batting portion. Austin is also such a smart base runner and fast. I think that he needs to work on being a stand-out pitcher and then the coaches can't ignore him.

I don't agree with some of the kids who made Bryson's team. 😆 All Stars is nice because you don't have to follow minimum play rules, so you can play your best players in whatever positions all the time. (There is a pitch limit for pitchers.) Bryson played shortstop 70% of the time and catcher for the other 30%. Every player on the team does bat, however, so there were some players that really held back the team because they couldn't read a change-up pitch or didn't have smart base running or ran very slow. Their team lost both games, but we were so proud of how Bryson played and how he cheered on his team. He batted a total of 6 times, got on base every time, and scored a run each time. (4 hits, 2 walks) His team lost 10-6 in the last game, so Bryson represented 3 of those runs. He had no errors in the field--lots of balls came his direction--and did a great job catching. We are definitely biased, but we thought he was the best player on the team! He did come in as a relief pitcher to finish out an inning as well.

Matt was an assistant coach